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NITED STATES R. W. POTTER, OE NEW YORK, N. Y.

PICTURE-CARD FRAME.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,699. dated March 7, 1865.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Similar letters of reference in both views indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists of a card provided in its center with a raised frame in such a manner that an ambrotype, daguerreotype or other photographic picture, or a picture of any other description, can be placed in the cavity formed at the back of the card, and said card will form the frame for the picture, and serve to exhibit it to good advantage. Said cardframe is produced by cutting out the center to suit the size of the picture, and embossing the border around the hole thus formed simultaneously, or by one andthe same operation by which the cutting is effected.

yTo enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a card cutout of thick paper or card-board of the usual size of photographicl picture-cards or of any other suitable or desirable size. This card is provided in the center With aframe, B, formed by cutting out a hole, a., and embossing or raising the border b round the hole by means of dies, or in any other suitable manner.

By the operation of embossing the border of the hole a, a cavity, o,is formedat the back of the card capable of receiving the picture C. This picture may be made on paper or on a metal plate, or on a thin piece of glass, or on leather or any other suitable material, and it may be produced either by painting or by the photographic process, and the hole in the card A must be large enough to show the Whole picture through it. Said picture is cut out to suit the cavity c in the back ot' the card, and it is placed therein and held by pasting a thin piece of paper or other suitable material over it.

By this simple invention pictures of any description can beinserted in Ordinary-cardssuch as are now generally used and known as photographic picture cards, and pictures made otherwise than by the photographic process or not made on such a photographic card can be preserved in a simple and cheap manner; or a photographic picture, instead of being pasted on the card as usual, is cut out and placed in the cavity at the back ot my card-frame and held there by pasting a piece of paper over its back. The picture Will thus show to better advantage than when lpastedon in the usual manner. It requires less care to paste it on, and it can readily be removed frorn the card and replaced by another Whenever it should be desired.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A card-frame, A B, made in the manner 

